Olfactory bulb astrocytes link social transmission of stress to cognitive adaptation in male mice

Emotions and behavior can be affected by social chemosignals from conspecifics. For instance, olfactory signals from stressed individuals induce stress-like physiological and synaptic changes in naïve partners. Direct stress also alters cognition, but the impact of socially transmitted stress on mem...

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Autores: Gómez-Sotres, Paula, Skupio, Urszula, Dalla Tor, Tommaso, Julio-Kalajzić, Francisca, Cannich, Astrid, Gisquet, Doriane, Bonilla-Del Río, Itziar, Drago, Filippo, Puente, Nagore, Grandes, Pedro, Bellocchio, Luigi, Busquets Garcia, Arnau, 1985-, Bains, Jaideep S., Marsicano, Giovanni
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2024
País:España
Institución:Universitat Pompeu Fabra
Repositorio:Repositorio Digital de la UPF
OAI Identifier:oai:repositori.upf.edu:10230/70857
Acceso en línea:http://hdl.handle.net/10230/70857
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41467-024-51416-4
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Astrocyte
Olfactory bulb
Stress and resilience
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Sumario:Emotions and behavior can be affected by social chemosignals from conspecifics. For instance, olfactory signals from stressed individuals induce stress-like physiological and synaptic changes in naïve partners. Direct stress also alters cognition, but the impact of socially transmitted stress on memory processes is currently unknown. Here we show that exposure to chemosignals produced by stressed individuals is sufficient to impair memory retrieval in unstressed male mice. This requires astrocyte control of information in the olfactory bulb mediated by mitochondria-associated CB1 receptors (mtCB1). Targeted genetic manipulations, in vivo Ca2+ imaging and behavioral analyses reveal that mtCB1-dependent control of mitochondrial Ca2+ dynamics is necessary to process olfactory information from stressed partners and to define their cognitive consequences. Thus, olfactory bulb astrocytes provide a link between social odors and their behavioral meaning.